Les Douze Plus Belles Fables du Monde
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Authors
Dévigne, Roger
Hellé, André
Issue Date
1932
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Book, Whole
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Illustrated paper boards. 79 pages. Of the fables, the first, L'Ane et le Printemps Éternel (1), is new to me. At Zeus' coronation, humans ask for eternal springtime and receive it. Zeus sends it to them on an ass, but the ass stops at a fountain along the way. The serpent guard of the fountain demands his sack in payment for a drink from the fountain. A favorite illustration among the beautiful work here by André Hellé is that of St. Francis preaching to the birds (10-11). The white bunny who wants to pass from the island to the mainland tells the crocodiles that he wants to count them. They line up and he runs across the causeway that they form, but he announces his ploy proudly before reaching the mainland, and the last crocodile can bite off his tail (13). Perhaps the best told and illustrated story among the twelve is Le Cheval et le Hérisson (47). The six blind creatures exploring the elephant are monkeys here (71). There is a T of C at the back. See Bodemann #430.1.
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Editions Berger-Levrault